Hoarder

[missprim]

Have just watched a programme about a man who lives in Surrey who is a serious hoarder.I've never seen anything like it in my life.
The other people in the village didn't want to have anything to do with him but one man offered his help and eventually more people came forward to offer their help.
They manage to clear most of his garden but then had to tackle the house and then the programme ended! grrrrr.
Why don't people who make these programmes realise that most of us would liked to have seen the outcome?
Did anyone else on here watch it?

[annadomino]

Isn't it just pure Kleptomania?

[missprim]

I agree Prudie. Unless the issues are sorted, people like this would go back to hoarding again.
Chris, get your act together and get your place sorted :-)

[shaneystar2]

Not really ..Kleptomania is stealing trivial things .He's hoarding junk.

[jno]

kleptomania's theft, not keeping your own stuff

[annadomino]

But the 'stuff' wasnt his, he gathered it on his travels.

[Prudie]

Chris - maybe you actually DO have a fridge in there somewhere:-)

[missprim]

There was a programme like this some months ago when a womans daughter and son were trying to get her to throw things out.I think the daughter was somebody who appears on television. It was heartbreaking to see how upset the woman got everytime they wanted to throw just a tiny thing away.

[ummmm]

It's hoarding. It's known as hoarding. If he had Kleptomania the programme would be about Kleptomania.

[jno]

i think the actual problem is keeping rather than getting.

[shaneystar2]

Lol...I'm sure he didn't go out and steal the myriad of empty cardboard tubes from loo rolls he had stashed round the place .He's "hoarded" them .

[missprim]

jno he's getting them so he can hoard them.He seems to live on eggs so there was a mountain of empty eggs boxes in his kitchen. At least I think it was his kitchen.

[joko]

i am something of a hoarder, but nowhere near this. i dont keep broken, empty or useless stuff...just supplies of consumables and stuff i can use for work - props etc

i have kept stuff because ive thought it could be for spares or used some other way, but got rid of it after a while...

i cannot undertsand at all people who hoard newspapers, empty carton, bottles of wee etc...

i did notice that this bloke - though a hoarder - was actually somewhat tidy... by which i mean how all his papers were very neatly stacked... rather than just strewn about and he was also 'somewhat' clean - his cooker was clean, so was his pan etc... which i think is interesting... it was more piles of junk than filth...i didnt notice any bags of poo or wee or old food etc...

[Ebaby]

I have seen people like that. I think the solution shroud be for the home owner to pay for the clean up. and if they don;t pay up now , it should be taking out of their estate when they die.

[ummmm]

I think that already happens Ebaby.

[missprim]

But joko he said he hadn't had a bath or a shower for years. perhaps he wiped his face 'cos he was on the tele.I suppose if he did live on boiled eggs that his cooker wouldn't get too bad but how on earth he didn't set those papers on fire near the cooker surpried me.

[askyourgran]

Well he wouldn't have had to fight his way to the loo much if he ate a lot of eggs.

[missprim]

Ebaby the people in the village took it to court and he won his case to keep all the stuff in his garden so the council can't take it as he was given the right to keep it.

[pusskin]

Shucks I missed watching it. Will try and get it on itv catch up tomorrow?

[NOX]

I didn't see the programme but there's a hoarder chap around here whose also a bit ' different'. He's a nice chap when you speak to him and it's none of my business what he keeps in his house or his garden, so I don't know why people can't just mind their own bl00dy business a bit more. He doesn't want help, dosen't hurt anyone so leave him alone with his hoard.

[ummmm]

NOX...this house was a serious hazard. He had to crawl through the kitchen door on his belly as stuff was piled up to near the top of the door frame. It took him 30 mins to go to the bathroom and 45 minutes to make two boiled eggs. The space he was cooking in was the size of the cooker surrounded by newspapers, floor to ceiling.

Although the neighbours only seemed to be bothered about his front garden and their village winning an award..